Carla Marinuccihttp://www.chron.com/author/carla-marinucci/
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Log-Cabin-Republicans-finally-recognized-by-state-6108921.php
article6108921Mon, 2 Mar 2015 00:51:48 UThttp://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/03/01/after-decade-of-struggle-log-cabin-republicans-finally-win-cagop-recognition/
blogPost1615282Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:05:47 UThttp://www.chron.com/nation/article/Christie-urges-GOP-activists-not-to-let-6107903.php
article6107903Sun, 1 Mar 2015 00:04:12 UThttp://www.chron.com/bayarea/article/Newsom-already-has-700k-on-hand-to-run-for-6105799.php
article6105799Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:11:25 UThttp://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/02/27/jersey-tale-christies-family-ties-with-a-genovese-crime-family-member/
blogPost1613956Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:27:25 UThttp://www.chron.com/news/article/Clinton-takes-on-gender-and-pay-gap-for-women-in-6099810.php
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Hillary Rodham Clinton went to the center of the nation’s innovation industry Tuesday to call for women’s equality in the tech sector, saying the gender gap and “shocking” pay disparities do a disservice to Silicon Valley. Clinton’s remarks got a warm reception at the Lead On Watermark Conference for Women at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where a packed house of about 5,000 people — mostly women — heard from leading executives, including fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg and tech publisher Kara Swisher. Calling the numbers “sobering” and “shocking,” Clinton pointed to a Forbes list of 100 top tech venture capitalists, saying “only four are women” and “just 11 percent of executives in Silicon Valley and only about 20 percent of software developers overall are women.” [...] she said, recent gender pay gap studies on Silicon Valley show that “a woman with a bachelor’s degree here tends to make 60 percent less than a man with the same degree.” The former New York senator and secretary of state was introduced by Intel P

resident Renee James as “a pioneer,” and a “modern day suffragette” and added — to cheers — that since women got the vote, “we have waited 95 years to have a woman lead our country.” [...] Clinton also delivered what have been her most detailed remarks to date regarding Silicon Valley, including a lawsuit now being tried alleging sexual harassment at the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. On net neutrality — keeping Internet access equal for everybody — Clinton said that “I would vote for net neutrality,” but that there needs to be a broad debate and a “smart legislative endeavor” about “how the spectrum is allocated.” “This is her demographic — they are intellectually driven, career-minded innovators and disruptors,” said Michelle Ruiz, a former Los Angeles news anchor and founder of Ruiz Strategies, a firm dedicated to women’s entrepreneurship.

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Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:08:32 UThttp://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2015/02/24/fashion-powerhouse-diane-von-furstenberg-ready-for-a-woman-president/
blogPost1609730Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:02:05 UThttp://www.chron.com/nation/article/Upwardly-mobile-women-eager-to-hear-Hillary-6097106.php
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“She is their high priestess,” said Jessica Levinson, a political analyst and professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who says the former first lady’s experience shattering the glass ceiling in politics, diplomacy and law will resonate with the hundreds expected to hear her Tuesday at the sold-out Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women. Political experts say the appearance will underscore Clinton’s specific appeal to women in the high-tech capital, where Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, author of the best-selling book Lean In: Allison Howard, chairwoman of the political science department at Dominican University in San Rafael, says, “This group of women know how hard it is to break into an industry, to be in the world of business, especially to be in tech and the venture capital world ... where you’ve seen how few women there are.” A series of Quinnipiac University polls earlier this year showed Clinton’s robust support among upwardly mobile, college-educated white women in key swing states — making up ground lost by Barack Obama, who in the 2012 election had a weaker showing in this demographic than any Democrat since Michael Dukakis in 1988. Fetalvo also slammed “her foundation’s acceptance of donations from foreign governments who oppress women’s rights and the scarcity of women on her emerging campaign,” saying that gives Clinton “quite a credibility problem” with female voters. [...] Lorna Randlett — a top manager with global strategies firm McKinsey & Co. whose husband, Wade Randlett, is a prominent Democratic fundraiser in Silicon Valley — says Clinton has already earned credibility and loyalty from professional women. “Women know there have been times in all of our experiences where we have had to be patient, to understand when is the right time to make our movements toward advancement and leadership,” said Randlett, a San Francisco mother of four who was appointed by President Obama to his Asian American-Pacific Islander Advisory Commission. For women who are hoping for equal opportunities for their daughters and their granddaughters, she said, Clinton’s life work — and her political timing — “are expressing what the best of the modern woman on a level playing field has to offer.” Leaders include Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, feminist activist and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom; former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, now teaching at UC Berkeley; and Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. representative later appointed undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. Tauscher said Clinton’s message in Santa Clara will be especially welcome to women of the “Lean In” demographic, who see themselves mirrored not only in her lifelong march up the professional ladder, but also in her concerns on women’s issues like health care, education and equal pay. ]]>
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:56:45 UThttp://www.chron.com/bayarea/article/Obama-poll-numbers-bounce-back-in-California-6090588.php
article6090588Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:00:00 UThttp://www.chron.com/bayarea/article/State-AG-Kamala-Harris-says-she-not-opposed-to-6088406.php
article6088406Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:40:39 UT